The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To THE REV. W. C. SAWYER,1 3 MARCH 1864

MS Klaus Schappert. On mourning paper.  

GAD’S HILL PLACE, | HIGHAM BY ROCHESTER, KENT. 

Thursday Third March 1864

My Dear Sir

Many thanks for your letter of yesterday. I decide to let Edward2 go,3 and do not doubt that he will be the better for it.

Faithfully Yours alwys 

 CHARLES DICKENS

The Rev. W. C. Sawyer

• 1. The Rev. William Collinson Sawyer (1831-68), proprietor of Cambridge House School, Tunbridge Wells: see Pilgrim Letters 10, p. 292n.
• 2. Edward (“Plorn”): unhappy at Wimbledon School, he had been transferred to Cambridge House School (1863-8): see To De La Rue, 24 Sep 63, Pilgrim Letters 10, pp. 292- 3 & nn.
• 3. On a visit to Italy with Sawyer and a party of his pupils. The £107.15.6 that CD paid Sawyer, 17 May, no doubt included this trip’s expenses (CD’s Account-book, MS Messrs Coutts).